In the current system of pre-publication peer review, which papers are scrutinized most thoroughly? In this blog post, I argue…
TL;DR: Anne wrote a blog post for the first time in over 2 years. The situation must be quite serious…
Dear Dr The 100% CI: Thank you for submitting “2019” [CAL-2019-12] to Advances in Calendar. I was very fortunate to…
Today we are hosting a guest blog by Pieter and Tom, who tell us about their round-shaped and spiky experiences working…
Let’s hypothesize that eating ice cream cured depression, and that this effect was mediated by the sensory pleasure derived from…
While reviewing papers, I’ve noticed some boilerplate that keeps creeping up in the “Limitations” sections of studies using cross-sectional, observational…
Earlier this year, I went through an academic existential crisis in which I questioned whether the field of research I’m…
Accounting for mistakes in my scientific work and announcing a bug bounty program. A story of few papers and many…
Next, we tested whether studies with bigger sample sizes are cited more. More and more, it’s looking as if citations…
I looked at citations as an indicator of research quality by dusting off two analyses that I did quickly a…